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Eric Burnett

@drericb

Board certified internist, hospitalist, asst. professor of medicine at CUIMC. Husband, dog dad, star baker in training

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Consider screening your hypertensive patients for primary aldosteronism!

01.10.2025 22:28 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#TWDFNR: Primary/essential hypertension? Or...primary aldosteronism? JHM Digital Media Fellow Eric Burnett discusses why we might not be screening our patients with elevated blood pressures, and why we should!

https://bit.ly/4pymLv7
#VisualAbstract: Sophie Sun
📹: @Eric

25.09.2025 16:27 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

@jhospmedicine.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Check out some of the great visual abstracts!

01.10.2025 22:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh no! Your patient's white cell count rose!
But wait...you started steroids yesterday! JHM Digital Media Fellow Eric Burnett discusses about why you don't need to react to the leukocytosis too soon!

https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70008
#VisualAbstract: Catie Glatz
📹: Eric Burnett

29.09.2025 18:36 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

It’s amazing how, in just one week, MAGA has shifted its expertise from vaccines and public health to wildfires and forest management, then to aviation safety, and now to tariffs and trade.

02.02.2025 20:52 👍 93 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
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Merry Christmas from your friendly neighborhood hospitalist!

Be safe out there :)

25.12.2024 15:25 👍 72 🔁 0 💬 11 📌 1
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Sunset from my office :)

19.12.2024 21:28 👍 54 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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I’m tired of having to be the adult in the room because I’m an educated professional, being forced to entertain every idea as worthy of discussion. Some ideas are dumb and dangerous.

13.12.2024 18:27 👍 99 🔁 6 💬 8 📌 1
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Trump celebrates Biden economy

12.12.2024 15:07 👍 974 🔁 213 💬 50 📌 14
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Happy Sunday! Making sure I post here from time to time :)

08.12.2024 16:25 👍 96 🔁 0 💬 9 📌 1

But send me the actual paper and I’ll review it. I can’t seem to find it online. I no longer have Twitter, so just send me the actual journal article

26.11.2024 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

The fact that you said that raw milk is 100% safe when there are plenty of reports disapproving that shows me that you’re not here to argue in good faith.

26.11.2024 16:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We live in a timeline where both of these headlines exist

24.11.2024 00:34 👍 61 🔁 7 💬 8 📌 0
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive YouTube video by MSNBC

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.

I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

20.11.2024 13:33 👍 33905 🔁 11692 💬 1021 📌 488
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Help

20.11.2024 02:31 👍 95 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
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19.11.2024 17:15 👍 83 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 2

It was never about sports, just like it was never about the price of eggs, or the economy…

19.11.2024 12:59 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0

Although with all the E. coli outbreaks they might actually wind up with a MAHA…

18.11.2024 18:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Make America hamburgers again!

18.11.2024 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Imma need y’all to stop posting so many of your tasty Thanksgiving recipes online…they look so good and I can’t possible make them all 😭

18.11.2024 16:10 👍 65 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Don’t make me tap the sign

18.11.2024 01:18 👍 200 🔁 23 💬 10 📌 2